Crediting God: Sovereignty and Religion in the Age of Global Capitalism

Contents
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Half Title
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Title Page
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Copyright
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction: Crediting God with Sovereignty
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Religion and Polity-Building......Page 35
Religious Freedom: Preserving the Salt of the Earth......Page 37
A New Form of Religious Consciousness? Religion and Politics in Contemporary Muslim Contexts......Page 51
A Republic Whose Sovereign Is the Creator: The Politics of the Ban of Representation......Page 75
Confucianism’s Political Implications for the Contemporary World......Page 91
Religion and the Public Sphere in Senegal: The Evolution of a Project of Modernity......Page 110
The End of the Saeculum and Global Capitalism......Page 123
Should We Be Scared? The Return of the Sacred and the Rise of Religious Nationalism in South Asia......Page 125
All Nightmares Back: Dependency and Independency Theories, Religion, Capitalism, and Global Society......Page 150
The Evangelical-Capitalist Resonance Machine......Page 168
Questioning Sovereignty: Law and Justice......Page 185
‘‘The War Has Not Ended’’: Thomas Hobbes, Carl Schmitt, and the Paradoxes of Countersovereignty......Page 187
Natural Right and State of Exception in Leo Strauss......Page 198
Law and the Gift of Justice......Page 215
Drawing—the Single Trait: Toward a Politics of Singularity......Page 229
The Religion of Democracy: Tocqueville Beyond Civil Religion......Page 259
The Religious Situation in the United States 175 Years After Tocqueville......Page 261
The Avatars of Religion in Tocqueville......Page 281
Publics, Prosperity, and Politics: The Changing Face of African American Christianity and Black Political Life......Page 293
Conversion......Page 313
Notes
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Contributors
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